Planning a trip to Cambodia? Why not learn some Khmer language? Makes a lot of sense to carry a phrasebook or dictionary. There are many available in Cambodian-English English-Cambodian. Also, many study courses available from beginners to advanced. Learn to read and write Khmer script. The locals will be impressed! Or maybe you're more interested in the origins of the Khmer language.
Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of “Desesperanto” – a language of which one can read a page and understand every word individually, and have no inkling of what the page was all about.
The Old Khmer Grammar has been brewed from a mass of memoranda and citations accumulated over long years of teaching Old Khmer to a succession of able graduate students. It is meant to serve the immediate needs of readers embarking on the study of the inscriptions, and assumes that they have some acquaintance with modern Khmer.
A thousand years of Cambodian epigraphy - from the 7th Century to the 15th - come to life in this handsome hardbound set.
A thousand years of Cambodian epigraphy - from the 7th Century to the 15th - come to life in this handsome hardbound set.
Study of the Khmer language, the dominant language of Cambodia. Study originally in Russian, translated by V. Korotky.
Compiled by H. L. Shorto, Judith M. Jacob and E. H. S. Simmonds. Preface, index. "The bibliographies contained in this volume deal with two of the most complex and extensive of the language families which make up the linguistic jigsaw of South East Asia, ranging between them from the Yangtze to Malaya and from Assam to Tongking.
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